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The Art of Intentional Living

Chic Dogs & Magnolia Dreams
The Art of Intentional Living
  • Your Brain on Beauty: What Monet Taught Me About Art and the Mind

    Your Brain on Beauty: What Monet Taught Me About Art and the Mind

    April 28, 2025March 30, 2026 Books, Quiet Notes

    Stepping Inside a Painting Last month, I stepped into a painting and I don’t mean that metaphorically. I found myself standing in a softly lit space in Antwerp, where Claude Monet’s brushstrokes bloomed across the walls, floor, and ceiling. Water lilies rippled around my feet. Flowers shimmered and…

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  • The Quiet Rebellion of Reading: Choosing Depth Over Distraction

    The Quiet Rebellion of Reading: Choosing Depth Over Distraction

    April 21, 2025May 26, 2025 Books, Quiet Notes

    There’s something quietly radical about curling up with a book in a world that urges you to scroll. Even more so when you choose a physical book, your eyes will thank you for the relief. We often don’t realize just how surrounded we are by screens until we…

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  • 10 Inspiring Lessons I Learned From Ina Garten’s Memoir

    10 Inspiring Lessons I Learned From Ina Garten’s Memoir

    January 12, 2025March 30, 2026 Books, Home & Garden
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    Be Ready When the Luck Happens I’ve read some pretty amazing books in 2024 but the one that stood out the most, and the one I was most eager to start reading, was Ina Garten’s memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens. The title is absolutely delicious if…

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Blue Moon Energy is heavy today. 🌕 These snippet Blue Moon Energy is heavy today. 🌕 

These snippets of everyday life remind me to pay attention to the seemingly small moments. Life is made of a collection of tiny, everyday moments.

But more often than not, we forget to pay attention. And life starts to being lived by default, instead of with intention. It becomes cluttered instead of curated.

It's a great time to release what no longer serves you, so you can make room for what does. Turning your life into a work of art and storytelling. 

There is always beauty.

Even in the midst of panic.

Even in the midst of grief and confusion.

We just need to remind ourselves.
Again and again.

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Stellita!
Stella Bella Mozzarella!
Judging us all since 2023.🦊🤪🩷

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Everyone deserves to be loved like Snooty the Shar Everyone deserves to be loved like Snooty the Shark.🦈🩷🐶
Using Instagram for what it was initially intended Using Instagram for what it was initially intended (according to my mind).

As a visual gratitude journal of moments and places worth remembering.

Hope you are having a gentle Sunday.🩷🌸
L'art de la vie There's a lot we can't control in L'art de la vie

There's a lot we can't control in life.

But there's a lot we CAN.

Simple, everyday things turned into art. By paying attention, being intentional and caring for ourselves and the environments we shape.

This is why I love French culture so much.

They understand that life is both a gift, and an art form. 

They understand that we have the power to bring beauty and care to our days.

There might be tragedy, there might be loss. But beauty remains, even if we are temporarily unable to see it.

Go ahead...

Wear your favorite shirt.

Put on some lipstick and your favorite perfume.

Drink tea in a beautiful cup that belonged to your grandmother.

Watch the sun set while standing in the middle of a green meadow. 

Giggle out loud at your dog's silly antics.

Eat your favorite dessert with all your senses heightened.

Hope you have a joy filled Sunday.🩷

#intentional
Snippets of life in the countryside. Dogs Gardeni Snippets of life in the countryside.

Dogs
Gardening
Delicious food
The coziness of home

#countryside #dogslife
Focusing on the love that surrounds us. Some of m Focusing on the love that surrounds us.

Some of my favorite things:

Happy dogs
Fresh flowers from the market
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Our home
The garden
Dogs
Delicious food
Dancing with Marlow
Upbeat songs
Dogs

#life #happiness #dogsofinstagram #happy
Snippets of life. Home The countryside Moments i Snippets of life.

Home
The countryside 
Moments in Paris
Gardening as medicine
Rescue dogs turned into Chic Dogs

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Life lately and the beauty and abundance of simple Life lately and the beauty and abundance of simple things.🩷🌸🐶

#homeandgardens #homebody #simplethings #softness
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